Hey hows everyone doing... I am a resident of Edmonton in Canada, and I am only 16 years old, I just left the JW religion. I just knew it wasnt in my heart, my parents dont care but I told them that I dont want to go to any meeting or talk to any of our old friends.. They still dont know why..but I fell like it was to much of a currupted situation..I felt like I was taking orders from man, not from god. I was not baptized yet, but I was going strong in the ministry as a unbaptized publisher. They elders always had a problem with the younger kinds in the kindom hall, girls were getting pregnant by worldly guys, we were starting to do drugs and just fool around alot. Basicaly we did this cause we were bored of the same ol' same ol' rules and boarders. The orginization had rules that us youger kids couldnt keep up to, and the geeky kids that did follow those rules turned out to be freaks in the high schools, some kid wanted to take there own life cause of the wieght the orginizatoin had on them. The girls were tired of the good little boys in the kindom hall, so they exparemented a little with worldly guys and they left the truth to find real love not controled love.
Me, my personal story is that, I was a big fan of rock n' roll, and I and some other fellow brothes got some fake I.D. made up and we were bar hoping alot, the "elders" found out of this and they visited me all the time on my choice of music and "all the other bad stuff I loved to do" (haveing a fun, good time wasnt that bad at all). But for some odd reason they were more concerned with the type of music I listen to and that "It sends satanistic messages". " If I keep this up I will lose my privileges in the congergation". So I didnt listen to them I got involved with some "worldly" guys and made a band, we started to get good and the elders said to me that it comes down to a choice, "The world or the truth". I told them to shove there bibles up there ass's to there face. And to get the f*ck outta my house, "my life isnt going to evolve around the rules of small small men". So my mom cried when she was there listening to me tell the Elders off. Then my dad was infuriated,they never seen this in the congergatoin up untill now. All the young brothers were going bad. The Elders could do nothing to change us around. So far the cound it 5 young boys all above the age of 16 and 3 girls above the age of 17.